Sr Software Development Engineer, AWS Vulnerability Management

At Amazon, Security is our highest priority. Our team builds products and services to continuously identify, track, and mitigate security risks in third-party software and open source libraries across AWS. We work with the latest technologies and encourage a lifelong learning model. We are never bored and always have interesting and challenging tasks to solve.

We're seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our AWS Vulnerability Management team, responsible for building and maintaining critical security services that help protect AWS customers and infrastructure. Our team is at the forefront of cloud security, developing innovative solutions to identify and mitigate security risks before they can be exploited.

You'll be handling complex challenges related to scaling vulnerability management across AWS's ever-growing infrastructure. This role offers the opportunity to build next-generation vulnerability management systems that operate at cloud scale and work directly with AWS service teams to integrate open source software security controls.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of Austin, TX USA.

• Identifying technical requirements based on business goals and product direction, and translating those requirements into detailed architecture and design.
• Executing multi-engineer, cross-team projects, and mentoring others on project management and prioritization.
• Delivering quality projects and features on time and on budget.
• Leading design reviews for the engineering team. Setting and driving technical best practices for the team.
• Participating in the full lifecycle of day-to-day development activities, including prioritization, task breakdowns, writing design documents, design and code reviews, implementation, deployment, and operations.
• Performing data analysis to identify opportunities to optimize our services.
• Maintaining current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, and working with management and the development team to bring in new technologies when appropriate.

During a regular day engineers with our team work across multiple organizations and multiple technologies to ensure the AWS maintains the correct security posture. We partner with the compliance and application security teams to identify and work through any potentially impactful issues. We also define and maintain highly scalable solutions built on AWS Services to improve the visibility and tracking of security exposures worldwide.

The AVM team has engineers in Seattle, Virginia(HQ2), Austin, and New York. We have a mix of both new and tenured engineers that all bring a unique aspect with them to any challenge. The team is made up of Software Development Engineers and Security Engineers all working together to ensure our solutions exceed the needs of our customers and are scalable.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

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